Written:Written December 16, 1902Published:First published in 1930 inLenin Miscellany XIII.

      Sent from London to Odessa.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1977],

      Moscow,Volume 43,

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Yourletter of November 15 received.

I.It was written in a code unknown to us, but we
deciphered it all with the exception of the addresses. (Code only by
complete sentences, otherwise the key is very easy to discover.) Repeat the
addresses....

III.The committee should he joined without fail and
agitation conducted within it to persuade it to affiliate with the
all-Russia organisation. At the same time the Southern League should be
influenced in the same direction. The existence of two organisations in the
same city is not
normal,[3]and they should eventually merge and form anIskracommittee; how to do it is, of course, up to you.

(Itgoes without saying that the merger should take place only if our
victory is assured. Otherwise it is better to wait,preserving the organisation which supportsIskraand undermining
the other from
			       within.[2])

IV.Re the Organising Committee.

V.We have been informed that some consignment ofIskrawas intercepted in Odessa. What happened?

[1]Identitynot established.—Ed.

[2]Insertionin a letter written by Krupskaya. Point III was crossed out
later.—Ed.

[3]Atthe end of 1902 there were two organisations in Odessa—a
Social-Democratic committee of ananti-Iskratrend and theSouthern Revolutionary League of Social-Democrats, founded in September
1902. In December 1902 the Southern League ceased to exist as an
independent organisation. As a result of persistent work on the part of theIskrasupporters in Odessa (Rozalia Zemlyachka, K. 0. Levitsky and
others) to combat the Economists and theBorbagroup, it merged
with theIskraorganisation in April 1903. Lenin examines the
question in a letter to Lyubov Axelrod dated December 18, 1902 (see this
volume, Document 59).